Note 114
From Chapter 56 of the Decline & Fall

Quod Ancontiani Graecum imperium nimis diligerent ... Veneti speciali odio Anconam oderunt.

The cause of love, perhaps of envy, were the beneficia, flumen aureum of the emperor; and the Latin narrative is confirmed by Cinnamus (l. iv. c. 14, p. 98.)

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